Monday, March 10, 2003

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A senior Department of Interior official who openly criticized the Clinton and Bush administrations for their handling of the Indian trust retired from federal service last week....

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The leader of the nation's largest inter-tribal organization said tribes will be "at the table" in the ongoing Cobell Indian trust fund lawsuit....

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Supreme Court issues trust rulings, Ross Swimmer nomination advances, judge hits government on trust reform and Indian housing funds questioned. One tribe celebrated, another expressed dismay and Indian Country looked on cautiously with the release of two Supreme Court rulings affecting the federal government's trust responsibilities....

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A diverse group of Indian interests has lent support to the University of Michigan in an affirmative action case that could have widespread implications for the education of Native American students throughout the country....

The University of Northern Colorado is repatriating a totem pole to the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska, nearly one hundred years after it was stolen from tribal land....

"Elders are a near majority in North Dakota, so health care is important....

"My heroes have always been cowboys....

A report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cites civil rights problems at the Department of Agriculture, the target of discrimination complaints by minority farmers and minority employees....

A report from the National Academy of Sciences that details the "largely unfavorable" consequences of drilling in Alaska is likely to be ignored by Republicans and Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, The New York Times says in an editorial today....

The Nebraska Legislature held a hearing last week on a bill that would use liquor tax proceeds to increase law enforcement at the town of Whiteclay....

Florida's two federally-recognized tribes are exploiting a "double standard" when it comes to the court, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel claims in a report....

Members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina voted on Saturday to limit the tribe's territory....

The death toll of bison in Yellowstone National Park will hit nearly 300, thanks to a week of slaughter by Montana livestock officials....

The Native American Student Council at Utah State University held its 30th annual pow-wow on Saturday....

Indian activists and leaders from the Americas met in Arizona to discuss the protection of sacred sites....

"It was a little more than 10 years ago, I believe, when I paid a visit to the Little Big Horn National Monument in southeastern Montana....

"The Journey of Sacajawea," a documentary about the Lemhi Shoshone woman who was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, premieres on Idaho Public Television tonight....

The Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota held a special ceremony in honor of tribal members who are serving in the U.S....

Representative Don Young (R-Alaska) reintroduced two bills to benefit Alaska Natives and Alaska Native corporations....

The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona is hosting a Congressional hearing today to focus on border issues....

The wife of Navajo Nation vice president Frank Dayish Jr....

The family of a Lakota man shot to death by a police officer in Rapid City, South Dakota, is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate the incident....

The family of a Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at West Point Military Academy in New York isn't satisfied with the Army's handling of the case....

US District Judge Royce Lamberth last week agreed to remove Earl Old Person, former chairman of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, as a lead plaintiff in the Cobell trust fund lawsuit....

The first phase of construction plans for the Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place in South Dakota will be unveiled later this month....